
               INSTALLATION NOTES FOR LOOM 4.0 with KPML
                        -- a quick fix package --

			    January, 2003


The natural language generation system KPML is generally used with
Franz Allegro or Xanalys Lispworks on PCs running Windows or Sparcs
running Unix. This is relevant to Loom 4.0 because Windows support 
is not as complete with the Loom 4.0 release as it might have been.
For running with Windows, a few changes have been made in this
release package compared with that downloadable from ISI. These 
changes are all in the file defsystem.lisp and concern differences
between the implementations of the Lisps for Windows and Windows
handling of file names. 

To use this version of Loom 4.0 it is necessary to load one file from
the KPML 4.0 release first. This is the file version-utilities.lisp,
which is also included in this set of files. After loading this file,
loading of Loom 4.0 can proceed on all machines and the mentioned
versions of Lisp as described in the Loom installation file.

The trickiest thing about installing is to make sure that Loom knows
which directories the binaries live in, if it messes up at all, then
this can be done by hand by copying the compiled binaries into the
place that Loom wants to have them. If it manages by itself, then all
is well. Some versions of Lisp may end up compiling to the BIN/MISC
directory, which is OK as long as you are only using one of them.

For Lispworks 4.2 you may need to load the file lww42-compatibility.lisp
too.

John Bateman
Uni Bremen
